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Max Weiss

1857 - 1927

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Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects. Weiss learned to play chess at age 12, and his strength increased steadily throughout the 1880s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Weiss is the 197th most popular chess player (down from 179th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 226th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Slovak Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Max Weiss ranks 197 out of 461. Before him are Vladimirs Petrovs, Adolf Schwarz, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Boris Gulko, Amos Burn, and Clarice Benini. After him are Leonid Shamkovich, Carl Mayet, Jonathan Penrose, Fenny Heemskerk, Gyula Sax, and Irina Levitina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Max Weiss ranks 130. Before him are John Joly, Clarence Darrow, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Frank J. Sprague, Michael Pedersen Friis, and David Prain. After him are Edward Henry Potthast, Charles B. Cory, Rudolf Thurneysen, Arthur Wesley Dow, Gertrude Atherton, and Alice Stone Blackwell. Among people deceased in 1927, Max Weiss ranks 141. Before him are Sarah Frances Whiting, Federico De Roberto, Johan Edman, William Healey Dall, Vincenzo Cerulli, and Manuel Gondra. After him are Kristian Prestrud, Fernand Feyaerts, Samuel Garman, John Henry Davies, Luke Fildes, and Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Max Weiss ranks 225 out of 418. Before him are Ľudovít Fulla (1902), Koloman Sokol (1902), Adolf Schwarz (1836), Róbert Vittek (1982), Mirka Federer (1978), and Vincent Lukáč (1954). After him are Ľudovít Ódor (1976), Vladimír Weiss (1989), Milan Luhový (1963), Mikuláš Galanda (1895), Ján Figeľ (1960), and Pavol Biroš (1953).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among chess players born in Slovakia, Max Weiss ranks 4. Before him are Richard Réti (1889), Ignatz Kolisch (1837), and Adolf Schwarz (1836). After him are Herman Steiner (1905), and Ľubomír Ftáčnik (1957).

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